69 results about "Vehicle to infrastructure" patented technology

A computer-implemented method includes receiving from a telemetric apparatus carried by a first vehicle an identity of an operator of the first vehicle and kinematic data characterizing movement and first location of the first vehicle. At least one weather condition associated with the first location is received from a source of environmental data. At least one of terrain geometry of the first location, road speed limit at the first location, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) data generated by an instrument proximate the first location, and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) data generated by an instrument proximate the first location is received from a source of location-specific data. The data received by the first communication device is stored in a database. Data from the database is provided to at least one entity.

In one example, we describe a method and infrastructure for DSRC V2X (vehicle to infrastructure plus vehicle) system. In one example, some of connected vehicle applications require data from infrastructure road side equipment (RSE). Examples of such applications are road intersection safety application which mostly requires map and traffic signal phase data to perform the appropriate threat assessment. The examples given cover different dimensions of the above issue: (1) It provides methods of RSE of interest selection based solely on the derived relative geometric data between the host vehicle and the RSE's, in addition to some of the host vehicle data, such as heading. (2) It provides methods of RSE of interest selection when detailed map data is communicated or when some generic map data is available. (3) It provides methods of RSE of interest selection when other vehicles data is available. Other variations and cases are also given.

This invention is related to a deep multi-sensor fusion system for inter-radar interference-free environmental perception comprising of (1) polystatic Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) radars such as radio frequency radar and laser radar; (2) vehicle self-localization and navigation; (3) the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) including Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication (V2I), other communication systems, data center / cloud; (4) passive sensors such as EOIR, and (5) deep multi-sensor fusion algorithms. The self-localization sensors and V2X formulate cooperative sensors. The polystatic MIMO radar on each vehicle utilizes both its own transmitted radar signals and ones from other vehicles to detect obstacles. The transmitted radar signals from other vehicles are not considered as interference or uselessness as conventional radars, but considered as useful signals to formulate a polystatic MIMO radar which can overcome the interference problem and improve the radar performance. This invention can be applied to all kinds of vehicles and robotics.

DSRC (Dedicated short range communication) is expected to play a significant role in Transportation applications for Public Safety and Traffic Management. Some of the key applications especially safety and mobility application requires an accurate representation of the road segments. Accordingly, here, in one example, we describe a method and infrastructure for DSRC V2X (vehicle to infrastructure plus vehicle) system. This presentation, e.g., adds the following improvements on the existing technologies, as some of the examples: (a) Using Speed-Profiles for identifying Intersections / mandatory-stops / Speed-limits, etc. Also, the extension of the map coverage using speed profile data. (b) Vehicular density identification for determining confidence of generated MAP. (c) Mechanisms for identifying Lane Attributes, like Lane-Width, Lane-Connections, Possible Movement states, average travel-time on the lane, etc. In this presentation, we provide various methods and systems to manage and update such maps and its corresponding information, plus many variations on those.

A device, method, computer program and computer readable medium allowing for vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communication. An ignition key radio technology may used in addition to WLAN-based communication in a vehicle in order to communicate with other vehicles or infrastructure. The ignition key radio technology is used to send only selected data which have been altered significantly. The remaining data are not sent or kept for the WLAN communication.

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) has the advantages of high bandwidth and low latency and has attracted extensive attention in the study of next generation of mobile networks by providing service environment and computing power at the edge of mobile networks. The invention discloses a vehicle task unloading and user mobility prediction and edge cache fusion policy in a vehicle networking environment. An MEC-based unloading framework is built. Tasks can be unloaded to an MEC server for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications or can be unloaded to an adjacent vehicle for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Considering task backhaul failure caused by link disconnection caused by user mobility, the Kalman filter algorithm is used to predict link connection estimation, and a user can select a stable service node during task request and task collection. Cache decisions are made before the service node first returns a task to a request vehicle. Access latency, traffic load and networkcost can be significantly reduced through content cache.

A system and method for providing geo-service advertising messages using a wireless vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) communications network. Messages are transmitted from a business that identify the type of business, the name of the business and the location of the business, which are received by vehicles traveling within a certain distance of the business. The messages can be rebroadcast by the vehicles receiving the messages from the business to other vehicles either in a multi-hop information routing manner or in a delay-tolerant network information dissemination fashion so that the messages are sent to a wider area, but within a predetermined geographic area and with a predetermined time. If a particular user of the system wishes to learn about a particular business or type of business, he can activate the system so that the messages being sent between the vehicles and from the businesses can be displayed to the user for his use.

This patent provides a process that utilizes the vehicle to infrastructure communication process to gather anonymous vehicle trajectories that describe vehicles approaching a signalized intersection. This information is used to project forward in-time the positions of vehicles to calculate the optimal time to change the traffic signal at a point that will minimize the delay to the traffic.

The invention discloses a time division multiple access technology-based resource scheduling method for the Internet of vehicles. The method mainly comprises the following steps of implementing the resource scheduling of vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communication links under the control and strategies of a roadside center unit; calculating a scheduling weight factor of each communication link according to information such as channel states, positions and movement speed cyclically fed back by vehicles, and preferentially scheduling timeslot resources to communication links (groups) with higher scheduling weight factors for data transmission by using the roadside center unit, wherein a plurality of vehicle-to-vehicle communication links can be combined into a communication link group if a distance between every two center vehicles serving as data transmitting terminals is longer than a preset interference interval, and a scheduling weight factor of each communication link group is the summation of the scheduling weight factors of all the communication links in the group; the same timeslot resource can be shared by each communication link in the same communication link group for data transmission; the sharing of the timeslot resources between different vehicle-to-infrastructure communication links and between the vehicle-to-infrastructure communication links and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication links for data transmission is not allowed. According to the resource scheduling method, the network throughput and the spectral efficiency of the Internet of vehicles can be effectively improved, and high network throughput performance can still be maintained particularly under the condition of high network load.

Disclosed are a system and method of regulating access to devices that can distract a driver that is operating a motor vehicle based on received Vehicle-to-Everything communications including Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure information. One example method may include determining a vehicle is approaching a vehicle movement restriction location requiring a vehicle movement restriction, determining an amount of time associated with the vehicle movement restriction, and determining whether a device located inside the vehicle will be made accessible to a user during the vehicle movement restriction based on the amount of time associated with the vehicle movement restriction.

The technology disclosed relates to testing of connected vehicle systems. The connections involved are sometimes referred to as Car-2-Car (C2C), Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Car-2-Infrastructure (C2I), or Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I). More generically, the connections are referred to as C2X and V2X. The technology disclosed provides an over the wire simulation of signals that a system will receive in operation, which allows testing of algorithms, breadboards, prototypes and complete systems. The system simulates the position of multiple on board units as the move with the vehicles that carry them. It attenuates signals between the OBUs and can attenuate signals among the OBUs and other test components, including roadside units and synthetic OBUs. The simulation is can be practiced as a method, a device, or computer readable medium that causes a device to practice the method or that, when combined with appropriate hardware, produces the device.

A system for determining driver errors includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a safety warning from a safety warning system. The processor is configured to determine an appropriate driver response based at least in part on the safety warning; determine a driver response; determine whether the driver response comprises the appropriate driver response; and in the event the driver response does not comprise the appropriate driver response, indicating a driver error.

The invention discloses a hierarchical energy management optimization control method for a hybrid electric vehicle based on V2X. Based on the Internet of Vehicles, vehicle-to-vehicle communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication are carried out; through traffic signal lamp timing and a model predictive algorithm integrated by an upper comptroller, the optimal target vehicle speed sequence for a given time window is acquired, the optimal target vehicle speed sequence is fed back to a driver of each vehicle in a wireless transmission mode, and the driver performs acceleration or braking according to the optimal target vehicle speed sequence. Compared with the prior art, the hierarchical energy management optimization control method for the hybrid electric vehicle based on V2X of the invention has following advantages that the optimal target vehicle speed is acquired, oil consumption for the hybrid electric vehicle can be effectively reduced on the basis of avoiding stopping for the red lamp or collision, real-time energy management for the hybrid electric vehicle is realized, and a new idea is provided for real-time energy management and optimization for the hybrid electric vehicle.

The invention discloses an intersection centralized scheduling method for a multiple-unmanned-vehicle formation. For aiming at a cooperative intelligent traffic system in which unmanned vehicles are used as a mobile service carrier, the method is characterized in that centralized scheduling on the multiple-unmanned-vehicle formation is performed based on vehicle-to-infrastructure communication (V2I); and the disposition in a scheduling computer of each intersection is performed. According to the method, before reaching the intersection by each unmanned vehicle, reserving information for passing the intersection must be performed to the scheduling computer through an on-vehicle wireless network. The scheduling computer utilizes a principle that a high-weight lane has higher priority, thereby performing multiple-vehicle authorization scheduling on the unmanned vehicles in each lane. According to the intersection centralized scheduling method, passing scheduling efficiency of the unmanned vehicle is further improved in a formation scheduling manner, and particularly passing efficiency of the unmanned vehicle with high priority is improved as possible, thereby effectively supporting design of a service-oriented intelligent traffic system, and similar multiple-intelligent-mobile-robot systems for intelligent warehousing and dispensing, etc.

An electronic device configured to perform wireless communication in accordance with vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication, the V2X communication including at least vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, and vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication, each of the V2V, V2I and V2P communications having an intermittent communication function; receive a signal associated with a location of the electronic device; determine whether to activate or deactivate a communication parameter corresponding to the V2P communication based on the signal associated with the location of the electronic device; activate or deactivate the communication parameter corresponding to the V2P communication based on the determining; and activate the intermittent communication function for the V2P communication in a case that that the parameter corresponding to the V2P communication is activated.

A traffic management method based on vehicle-to-infrastructure integration technology comprises the following steps of S1, acquiring motion data of all vehicles which are connected with a road-side unit in a vehicle-to-infrastructure technology (V2I) communication mode; S2, detecting whether an abnormal event occurs, and determining the type of the abnormal event; S3, when the abnormal event is a traffic accident, executing a step S4; S4, extracting the position and the speed of all vehicles in a traffic accident range in a preset time period; S5, calculating an average vehicle speed V in the traffic accident range; S6, comparing for determining whether the average vehicle speed V is smaller than a preset least vehicle speed V_min, if yes, performing a step S18, and otherwise, performing a step S7; ....; and S12, calculating the number sumi of queuing vehicles of each lane behind a first parking line and sequencing the numbers sumi from highest to lowest, and dynamically distributing passing time length of each lane according to the sumi. The traffic management method has beneficial effects of high traffic management efficiency, no manpower resource consumption and low danger coefficient. The traffic management method has functions of dynamically distributing lanes for the vehicles, improving traffic operation efficiency, performing ordered control on the vehicles at a crossing, and effectively reducing traffic accident rate at the crossing.

Disclosed is a system for traffic incident reporting comprising the present invention provides a system for traffic incident reporting comprising: a plurality of vehicles and infrastructure units employing a vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communication technology capable of sharing real time and historical information of one or more vehicles involved in the traffic incident and other vehicles in a predefined area of the traffic incident.

A method and apparatus may include establishing a first bearer for user equipment to transmit uplink communication to an application server. The user equipment is configured for vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. The method may also include establishing a second bearer for the application server to transmit downlink communication to the user equipment obtaining V2X services. The method may also include transmitting uplink and downlink communication between the user equipment and the application server.

In Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications, the broadcast data towards the vehicles must use the network resources efficiently while the unicast data must arrive reliably with ultra-low-latency. Furthermore, the connections must remain network-attached while vehicles move rapidly. A system / method are described through which a vehicle with a special communications module and internal computer can connect to one or more 5G vehicular network slices (VNS) with multiple Radio Access Technologies (multi-RAT) in order to efficiently communicate with local or remote transportation information databases and applications, road safety and emergency infrastructures. The infrastructure of this disclosure uses the network-slicing feature of a 5G mobile network to carve out a vehicular data and control planes specialized to offer the vehicular service only. The vehicular network slice further comprises (i) Road Side Access Unit (RSAU), (ii) Vehicle Id registrar (VIR), (iii) Vehicular Slice Manager (VSM), and (iv) distributed Virtual Transportation Network Functions (VTNF).

Smart in-vehicle decision support system has been developed to address current challenges and offers a new approach to make right stop / go decisions for vehicles to drive through a signalized intersection. The methods and systems described herein exploit a novel conceptualization of the decision support problem as an integration process, where a decision support model takes advantages of vehicle-to-infrastructure communications and fuses the inputs from vehicles and intersection, which comprise key information of vehicle motion, vehicle-driver characteristics, signal phase and timing, intersection geometry and topology, and the definitions of red-light running, to explore a more complete variable space of physical and behavioral information and provide safer and more efficient decision supports to vehicles driving through a signalized intersection than the previous methods and systems. The novel formulation of the decision support model as a probabilistic sequential decision making process incorporates a set of decision rules that are responsible for different situations into the present invention, which enables each decision rule to quickly make a right decision and better improves both traffic safety and intersection throughput than the other existing formulations.

The invention provides an expressway dangerous road section and construction region early-warning control system and an expressway dangerous road section and construction region early-warning controlmethod, which belong to the technical field of intelligent vehicles. The an expressway dangerous road section and construction region early-warning control system comprises a data collection module, anetwork communication module, a data calculation processing module, a scene processing module, and an early-warning publishing and feedback module. The an expressway dangerous road section and construction region early-warning control method comprises the steps of: a data acquisition step, which is implemented by loading data by means of a local roadside intelligent control station; a network communication step used for V2I (Vehicle to Infrastructure) communication of the Internet of Vehicles; a data calculating and processing step used for calculating and processing received data and transmitting a data processing result to the scene processing module; a scene processing step, which is implemented by judging a specific type of a road section, and judging a distance reminder between a vehicle and the dangerous road section as well as a construction region; and an early-warning step, which is implemented by performing auxiliary operation prompt or early warning according to the type ofthe road section and the distance between the vehicle and the dangerous road section as well as the construction region. The expressway dangerous road section and construction region early-warning control method plays a positive role in reducing the accident rate of dangerous road sections and construction regions of an expressway, and improves the driving safety.

In one example, we describe a method and infrastructure for DSRC V2X (vehicle to infrastructure plus vehicle) system. This can cover a communication circle up to 800 m, and in some cases 1000 m, and as a result, in congested traffic areas, the onboard unit is communicating with high number of units and may end up saturating its processing capability very quickly. In one example, the task is to provide different levels of node filtering algorithms to intelligently select the node data to be processed. This results in optimally using the available processing power by only processing the data of the desired nodes. This method is based on combination of range, velocity, heading, direction, transmitted power, received power threshold, and map database, if available. This also reduces the V2X communication congestion problem resulted in high number of one-to-many nodes communication.

Disclosed are a system and a method for complementing a position of a vehicle and an apparatus for controlling complementing a position of a vehicle that select a representative vehicle within divided areas and complement a position of an own vehicle from a representative vehicle by using a DGPS complementation signal received through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication.

The invention discloses a V2I (Vehicle to Infrastructure)-based road boundary and accident black spot extraction method and a system. The system comprises an acquisition unit, a road boundary pretreatment unit, a road boundary synthesizing unit, a road boundary computing unit, a road boundary judging unit, an accident black spot comparing unit, an accident black spot recording unit, a mapping unit and a sending unit, wherein the mapping unit maps a historical road boundary line database after updating and a historical accident black spot database to a map layer; and the sending unit is used for sending the map layer information to all vehicles in a road-side unit V2I communication range in real time. The method and the system have the beneficial effects that all vehicles in the road-side unit V2I communication range can be provided with the map layer information, a proposed driving path and early warning information can also be provided, the multiple vehicles can be ensured to drive in the road boundary range and avoid the accident black spots, and the accident occurrence rate can be reduced.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a vehicle formation method and system based on a V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure) cooperative technology and relates to the technical field of V2I cooperation.The method comprises the steps as follows: a vehicle A periodically broadcasts pre-formation information, wherein the vehicle A is any vehicle with a V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) cooperation function; a vehicle B communicates with the vehicle A through a V2V device after receiving the pre-formation information of the vehicle A to construct a queue, and a pilot vehicle and a first formed vehicle are determined according to a formation rule; the first formed vehicle sends formation completion information to the pilot vehicle; the pilot vehicle periodically broadcasts formation information; any vehicle C joins the queue after receiving the formation information to become a second formed vehicle to the Nth formed vehicle; vehicles are forbidden to join the queue until the length of the queue reaches pre-formation length of the pilot vehicle or the formed member number reaches a preset member number of the pilot vehicle. The vehicle formation method and system can solve the problem of low efficiency of vehicle formation running methods in the prior art.

The invention relates to a typical bend area seamless communication method under a V2X (Vehicle to Vehicle and Vehicle to Infrastructure) environment, and belongs to the field of traffic information perception and communication. The method comprises the following steps that: extracting people, vehicle, road and environment information in a bend, processing data, establishing a vehicle bend collision avoidance safe distance equation and an attraction factor model; judging whether a relative distance Dr between a front vehicle and a rear vehicle is smaller than the safe distance or not; judgingthe evaluation level of a degree of safety; and according to judgment, determining whether a communication mode is switched or not and whether a collision avoidance system is started or not. By use ofthe method, the influence of multiple factors on the driving operation of a driver is fully considered, a reference basis is provided for the judgment of seamless communication, and travelling safetyis improved.